iPhone Calendar List View Extends Back Only One Year

My data goes back to 1997 and I too miss the ability to serach for older items. I tried the Week Calendar Application, it is very slow to search but will at least allow me to find old calendar data. Thanks for that suggestion! Outlook, Blackberry and Palm were far superior with this type of serach. Also I miss the "Notes or Memo" application. Evernote does a fair job of filling in for it but needs internet access to access full records. icloud should also have NOTES or MEMOS application.

Hi everyone,

Same issue as you all have/had:

I have an exchange server for my e-mails but don't believe that this is relevant for the question I have. I found out that all of my calendar entries (even very old ones) sync to my iPhone/iPad, but that the search function on my iPhone/iPad limit the search to only the last 12 months of calendar entries. Does anyone have this same issue, and if yes, why would Apple limit this search?

I have iOS7 since 4 days but still same issue. Same for you all?

It's broken for me too. IOS7, calendar search only shows a year's worth of events.

I got my iphone 5s and got the same issue. Calendar entries going back to 2009 but if i search fro within the calendar application it searches one year back only.

I used to have blackberry 9900 and the search function was superb.

I hope apple adds this to its next update

I just bought a new iPod Touch 5G and have the same problem. List view, in addition to being very awkward to activate, also only goes back one year. Ironically, the complaints over this shortcoming extend back several more years!

We just got our first iPhones and saw this problem. My wife's 6+ arrived 5 weeks after my 6. Both go back only about 1 year from their (I'm guessing) activation date. Our iPads' Calendars, however, go back as far as we've had events.

Our concern, then, involves ONLY the iPhone Calendar. It is limiting ONLY in list view. Tilt to landscape view and there are all the older events.

Weird. They ought to fix that nonsense.

I am having the exact same issue. Thanks for the heads up about turning to landscape as I was then able to see all the older calendar events.

Come on Apple....this needs to get fixed, please.

The landscape workaround sounds promising, and it will work for me, if I understand it correctly. But I don't seem to even have the option to search in landscape mode. Can you please verify if you can actually search? Or are you simply referring to scrolling thru all events?

I believe I have the answer.

and it's not good.

The problem is one that Apple won't fix.

the issue is:

When we start a search, ios will start searching as soon as we type. If we type slow, like the word apple, it'll start searching for the "a" if we type too slow, or if we have a LOT of data to search.

I too have data in my phones from 1988, or even further back, 7mega Bytes of data. on the first iphone I had which was the first iphone models made, it did this, and the last one I owned, four iphones later, it did the same.

They won't fix it since they implement it to keep, like some have suggested, to keep the phone from slowing down and locking up.

I too have posted suggestions in the Apple suggestions site, MANY times. they ignore it.

and btw, it is a ROLLING one year back that is lost.

True if you know what date it is, you can go back to that date and search by eye for it.

The easy fix would be to require typing the whole word or search string, then hitting ENTER. like most searches are done. [outside of Hotel California.]

I sold my iphones, am stuck with a mac pro desktop, but I'll never buy an iphone again. and recommend my friends and customers to avoid iphones.

I would buy again if they ever change it. but that's like waiting for pigs to fly. 🙂

I'm stuck with the mac pro, since my business software that I've refined for 25 years, is not available on a PC.

AND they no longer make a Mac Pro that I want to buy. (expandable NOT using Thunderbolt. another bad idea that Apple has tried before, and failed. Remember all the other new standards that only Apple uses? that are not used now?)

Apple is an arrogant company. they think they can set the standard for the world.

They've succeeded with the iphone, to all our detriment.

Going to apple from PC's is a one way trip. Hotel California.

also see:

How can I search in my calendar for events more than 1 year back. I have 14 years of calendar!